The Other Lobe of The Brain

A Blog About Experiential Education, Social Media, and the Brain…

We notice more and more articles appearing that talk about education and social media, like this one last week in the Washington Post about twittering professors.  So, we continue this theme with a post by Ashley and Jim.  Take a look.
-Jim and Shwen
 
 
Engagement as an Invaluable Education Tool: A Lesson from Social Media
 
Ashley Stempel’10 and [...]

World Association of Cooperative Education (WACE) conference.
 
-Jim Stellar
 
I just came from the World Association of Cooperative Education (WACE) and as I post this brief note from the Vancouver airport, they are wrapping up the meeting.  Some 400+ people from dozens of countries all over the world attended to discuss this powerful form of education that, [...]

We had such a nice reaction to our last piece on leadership that we did it again below with Cynthia Bainton.  We think it is important to see the connections between “other lobe” thinking in various domains and hope you agree.
-Jim and Shwen
 
 

 
Relational Practice in Leadership – Lessons Learned from Gender Differences
 
By Cynthia Bainton and [...]

Here is another post that comes out of Jim’s conversations with Northeastern students.  It is touching on social media, something Shwen writes about in his blog, Med 2.0.
 
-Jim and Shwen
 

 
 
Social Media, Warmth, and “Other Lobe: activity
 
Jim Stellar and Ashley Stempel‘10
 
When we are not talking about how cooperative education experiences in industry have affected the [...]